Details
In matte and burnished gilding, the borne case with classical maidens at a fountain, Cupid with an arrow and quiver to one side, dolphins with entwined tails to the top, the plinth cast with swans and foliage, on bun feet, the white enamel dial signed à Paris, its reverse inscribed 1207 a Paris and 1207/Dub (for Dubuisson), the movement stamped F
2212 in. (57.5 cm.) high, 16 in. (41 cm.) wide, 734 in. (20 cm.) deep
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Eric Pillon, Versailles, 22 November 1998.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 22 October 2010, lot 569.
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Etienne Gobin, known as Dubuisson (d. circa 1822), watch and clock enameler, worked at Chantilly and Sèvres as a flower painter. He is later recorded in the rue de la Huchette in the 1790s before moving to rue de la Calandre around 1812.

A virtually identical example with the case signed Lefèvre is illustrated in P. Kjellberg, Encyclopédie de la Pendule Française du Moyen Age à XXe siècle, Paris, 1997, p. 391 pl. F, where the model is attributed to Claude Galle (1759-1815), one of the preeminent bronziers of the Empire period. Another example is illustrated in Tardy, French Clocks The World Over Part II, Paris, 1981, p. 292, where this model is described as being of remarkable quality.

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